Butch Cassidy house in Spokane

The house at the southwest corner of Providence Avenue and Monroe Street was once the home of William T. Phillips, a seemingly respectable local businessman – he was married with a son, owned a North Side machine shop and belonged to the Elks Temple – who in younger days may actually have ridden with Butch Cassidy’s notorious gang of bank and train robbers. Some accounts even portray Phillips as Cassidy himself, safely returned after fleeing to South America with the Sundance Kid, quietly reformed and hiding out under an alias in sleepy Spokane.

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Mon., Nov. 26, 2018

Until a few months ago, this home just west of Monroe (and one block south of Garland) and Providence was boarded up. It is believed to be the home of the real Butch Cassidy of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid fame. Photographed on Friday, Nov.18, 2018.

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Leaded glass inside this this home just west of Monroe and Providence is photographed on Friday, Nov.18, 2018.

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The original cabinets and hardwood flooring in this home just west of Monroe and Providence is photographed on Friday, Nov.18, 2018.

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Rick Tannehill, the owner of this home just west of Monroe and Providence is photographed on Friday, Nov.18, 2018.

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A curved wall in this home just west of Monroe and Providence is photographed on Friday, Nov.18, 2018.

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The Garland Theater is seen through this original wavy glass window in this home just west of Monroe and Providence is photographed on Friday, Nov.18, 2018.

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This undated photo of William T. Phillips was taken from the Larry Pointer Collection, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyo. A collector of rare books and documents says he has obtained a manuscript containing new evidence that Butch Cassidy wasn't killed in a 1908 shootout in Bolivia but returned to the U.S. and lived on in Washington State for almost three decades. The original handwritten manuscript of "Bandit Invincible: The Story of Butch Cassidy" dates to 1934 and is twice as long as an obscure book of the same title by William T. Phillips, who died in Spokane in 1937.

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